Media miss point as Chelsea Clinton does real work

5:30 AM,
Aug. 30, 2013

Joe Conason

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Joe Conason

To discover what Chelsea Clinton is doing with her life - and why - shouldn't pose much of a challenge to any reasonably industrious journalist. In recent months, after all, she has stepped into the spotlight to advance the causes that excite her. Yet the political press still seems far more inclined to ruminate over her supposed ambitions rather than report her real concerns.

Which, according to her, include an unshakeable obsession with diarrhea.

Speculation over the potential political future of the former first daughter erupted this month in Politico, on the CNN website and on the ...